Kyra Sedgwick Highlights

  • 2009: Nominated for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in Drama Series
  • 2009: Co-starred with Gerard Butler in the action thriller, "Gamer"
  • 2009: Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (June)
  • 2006: Starred in "Loverboy" as an unsound mother who surrounds her only son with a magical world for two; directed by and co-starring her husband Kevin Bacon; premiered at Sundance (lensed 2003)
  • 2005: Cast as Brenda Johnson, a CIA-trained interrogator in the crime drama "The Closer" (TNT); earned Golden Globe (2006, 2008, 2009), SAG (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) and Emmy (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) nominations for Best Actress in a Drama Series
  • 2004: Co-starred with husband Kevin Bacon in "The Woodsman"
  • 2004: Re-teamed with Bacon for "Cavedweller"; earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination Female Lead
  • 2004: Cast in the HBO movie "Something the Lord Made" a dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) and Vivien Thomas (Mos Def)
  • 2002: Appeared opposite William H. Macy in the TNT movie "Door to Door"
  • 2000: Played Julianna Margulies' lover in "What's Cooking?"; film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival
  • 2000: Starred in the failed ABC sitcom "Talk to Me"; also co-executive produced
  • 1999: Hosted Lifetime documentary, "Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America"
  • 1998: Served as associate producer (also starred) for HBO's "Montana"
  • 1998: Played Olivia in Broadway's triumphant Lincoln Center run of "Twelfth Night" (aired live on PBS)
  • 1997: Portrayed the sexpot daughter of the comatose man in Bed 5 in Sidney Lumet's "Critical Care"; reunited with Mirren
  • 1996: Delivered a vivid turn as Southern woman with a fondness for married men and red wine in "The Low Life"
  • 1996: Producing debut, "Losing Chase" (Showtime); also starred as a young woman hired as a companion to a depressed, older female (Helen Mirren); helmed by husband Kevin Bacon
  • 1996: Was the face for designer Emmanuel Ungaro's new couture line
  • 1996: Starred as a single mother romanced by John Travolta in the feature "Phenomenon"
  • 1995: Offered an acclaimed, scene-stealing turn as Julia Roberts' straight-shooting sister in "Something to Talk About"
  • 1995: Had a small role in "Murder in the First" playing a hooker opposite Kevin Bacon's imprisoned character
  • 1993: Starred opposite Anjelica Huston in the ABC miniseries "Family Pictures"
  • 1992: Had featured role in Cameron Crowe's "Singles"; re-teamed with Matt Dillon and Campbell Scott
  • 1992: Won praise for her title performance in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production "Miss Rose White" (NBC)
  • 1991: First feature with husband Kevin Bacon, "Pyrates"
  • 1991: Re-teamed with Dillon to play a married couple in HBO's "Women & Men 2"
  • 1990: Played Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward's daughter in the Merchant Ivory Film "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge"
  • 1989: Portrayed Tom Cruise's high school sweetheart in Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July"
  • 1988: First prominent role in a feature, playing a prostitute opposite Matt Dillon in "Kansas"
  • 1988: Broadway debut in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness!"; co-starred with Campbell Scott
  • 1985: Played the title role in the ABC Afterschool Special "Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale"
  • 1985: Feature acting debut, "War and Love"
  • 1982: TV debut in the regular role of Julia Shearer on the NBC daytime drama "Another World"
  • 1981: Professional acting debut at age 15 in the Off-Broadway play "Time Was"
  • Performed in a school production of "Fiddler on the Roof" at age 12